{"id":4922,"date":"2009-09-10T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2016-11-19T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:41:46","slug":"is-india-not-an-advanced-democracy-or-are-the-presidents-speechwriters-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/is-india-not-an-advanced-democracy-or-are-the-presidents-speechwriters-ignorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Is India Not An Advanced Democracy, Or Are The President&#8217;s Speechwriters Ignorant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Remarks-by-the-President-to-a-Joint-Session-of-Congress-on-Health-Care\/\" target=\"_blank\">remarks last night<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are the only democracy &#8212; the only advanced democracy on Earth &#8212; the only wealthy nation &#8212; that allows such hardship for millions of its people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Question:  Does India not count as a democracy or a suitably advanced democracy?  Does it suit this characterization because it has <i>hundreds<\/i> of millions whose health care is not provided by the government?  Or does the President&#8217;s speechwriters ignorant of things non-European?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s remarks last night: We are the only democracy &#8212; the only advanced democracy on Earth &#8212; the only wealthy nation &#8212; that allows such hardship for millions of its people. Question: Does India not count as a democracy or a suitably advanced democracy? Does it suit this characterization because it has hundreds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15927,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/15927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}